Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-01
MINOR NOTES.

South Carolina means to have its biggest
time (Since lSGl) on April 20, when the Cal
houn monument on Marion square, Charles
ON, will I've unveiled
Mrs Cleveland takes morning walks. like
Il sensible woman, and is seen in the streets
every pleasant day.
! Ex Empress, Eugtnie has applied to the
city government of Naples for permission
t. enter the hospital as II nurse and care for
| the soldiers wounded at MasSuwah
King William is having magnificent din
ner service Of the Dresden bright yellow
ware made for presentation to Queen Vic
toria on the occasion Of her jubilee 1t will
comprise about 100 pieces, ,plcniidly en-
! hclli,hrd
| The Wilmington, Wrightsville & Onslnw
railroad in North Carolina now in proceN,
of building, is owned and controlled by col
ored men-probably the only instance in
/ the country
| OF 32i 900 women entitled to vote for
school officers in Massachusetts AN average
of little over 1000 have registered rs vot-
ers and AN average of 1911 have actually
voted during the last five years. In other
words, only one woman in every $50 care,
to vote,
The prohihitioniSts If Mississippi have
added II counties to the dry list the past
| year, and feel accordingly very much up
lifted. By petition and local option they
control two-thrds of the state, and have
designs upon the other third,
a Philadelphia expert, who has made Il
| special study of the power of II hammer
| blow delivered 10y the driving wheels of a
! locomotive, has informed the Massachusetts
railroad commissioners that the driving
wheels of a standard Pennsylvania Railroad
engine, the drivers being feet inches in
( diameter, the cylinders Is by "A inches, and
/ the steam pressure l2l pounds, would strike
II hammer blow of nine tons at each revolu-
ton of each pnir of drivers, or, at speed
| of II mile II minute, u blow of IL tons every
| II feet, and this in addition to the weight
of the engine. lie attributed many of the
hreakages of rails To this cause.
The summaries presented in the Civil Ser
vice Record show that the old line Demo.
Gratis have really very little reason to com
I plain that the Administration is not empty
ing the offices fast enough In the interior
l department, for example, there are 81,
presidential offices. which have, as rule
the highest salaries. Up to Jan. /, 1881,
20j of these had been changed since the in
coming of the present Administration, Thi,
makes the total percentage unchanged by
I Mr.. Cleveland only 81 per cent, Seventy
one per cent of these offices We're changed
prior IA October and : per cent more in
the next three months. At the latter rate
all the remaining offices would be changed
by next December, In the unclassihed de
partmentS the rate of change is 3D. pei
cent per annum, which would empty all the
places by April, 1883.
Arrangements have heen made for the
sale of MIR. Beecher's hooks, engravings
etchmgs, paintings, rugs and brio Il brac at
the rooms of the American Art association
next fall. Mr.. Beecher's farm, Boscobel
at Peekskill, which is offered for sale i,
valued at SlO0,0O0. 1t contains 3G acre,
and is all under high state of cultivation
every rod of it having been thoroughly
SUBSIDIZED. On it there are fully 5000 forest
trees and shrubs, including specimens of al
sorts which grow in this latitude. There
are also 20OO fruit trees, and grape vine,
which produce two or three tons OF grapes
The house cost S45, 900, and there are eN
tensiVe barns, greenhouses, stables, etc.
and the old farm house.